Not a fan of their coffee but had a nice cappuccino that comes with seltzer water and some…read morechocolate espresso beans to boot. Nice place to sit and have a conversation. Staff is friendly and helpful.

Skip it if you want to feel like a welcome customer I've…read morebeen to Kaldi's on Skinker a handful of times and generally liked it, but my last visit has me second-guessing a return. The person working the counter was visibly disinterested from the moment I walked up, no greeting, minimal eye contact, and an overall vibe that suggested I was an inconvenience rather than a customer. He took my order without repeating it back or confirming any details, and sure enough, it came out wrong. When I pointed it out, there was no apology, just a flat, borderline dismissive response that made me feel like I was the problem for bringing it up. I get that working a busy coffee counter isn't always glamorous, but a basic level of professionalism and a simple "sorry about that" go a long way. Neither happened here. The coffee itself is fine and other staff are lovely. But if you end up at his counter, good luck, when the service makes you feel unwelcome, it's hard to justify coming back when there are plenty of other good coffee spots in the area that actually seem glad you walked in.

Comet has the best croissants I've ever had. They're the perfect amount of flakey and buttery and…read morethey are SOO GOOD. I popped in before work on a Friday morning and they were busier than I expected so there was a short line before ordering. You really can't go wrong with any pastry, but I got the chocolate croissant and my friend got the ham & cheese one. I've also stopped at their table at tower grove bakery and gotten the lavender lemon morning bun. All of the pastries are soooo good and a perfect treat! I also got the honey lavender iced latte (half sweet) and it was tasty. Highly recommend coming here!! I will be back to try more pastries!!

My husband and I love Comet! We love the staff here and they are so helpful. There is seating…read moreinside, but it is limited. On nicer days, there is seating outside. I got their matcha latte, and my husband got an espresso that was served with sparkling or tonic water. I would definitely get it again and pick up a bag of their coffee!

Tous Les Jours is a French Asian bakery with locations all across the US. The recently opened a…read morelocation in STL and it could not have been busier when I went! When you walk in you pick up a tray and some tongs and get to look through all the different glass cases of baked goods. You pick what you want and then pay at the counter. They have both sweet and savory options. I opted to get their matcha donut and a savory hot dog pastry. They also have specialty cakes, as well as espresso drinks. I love the variety of options they have and feel that their baked goods are overall fairly priced. I can't wait to go back and try something new!

One of the best Asian franchise bakeries in St. Louis! They offer a wide variety of delicious…read morepastries, including both savory and sweet puffs, croissants, egg tarts, milk bread, pies, muffins, and danishes. We frequently order cakes from them for special occasions, and they're always a hit. The cakes are perfectly soft with just the right amount of sweetness. Their drink menu has coffee, tea and non caffeinated drinks, and my personal favorite is the iced strawberry matcha. The service is consistently quick and friendly. While it can get a bit noisy if you're looking for a quiet place to work, it's a wonderful spot to catch up with friends or enjoy time with family in a small group. Highly recommended!

In a nutshell, great service, comfortable surroundings and excellent food. What more could you…read morepossibly want? Today was a quick in and out but thought anyone reading this might enjoy these words.... I tried the Morning Salad (mixed greens, grilled avocado, tomatoes and 2 scrambled eggs) and the Crispy Potatoes (crispy bacon and cheese). Wow....a most excellent combination if there ever was one. Don't ever sleep on Ivy's drink game. Their food is ridiculously good, but their drink menu is right up there. The Hyde is somewhat of an Ivy Margarita inspiration and YOU need to try it. Okay, I'm going to ask for some grace regarding my pictures as I was taking my last bites, when I realized I forgot to shoot the plates untouched. Oh well, as the immortal Prince says.....'Dig if you will, this picture.....'

We took a guest to breakfast here one weekend morning recently. Street parking was easily…read moreavailable, and is free on weekends. What a sweet and bright, open space it was! Clean too. The seating host and servers we met during this experience were very nice. I ordered the mushroom coffee: forest & meadow mushroom medicinal powder, served with a shot of espresso. I received a large, hot mug of beverage with artistic crema decor. Could not discern mushroom flavor save the grit at the bottom of the cup, but I can now say I've tried it. My eggs and salad dish came out next, along with an order of their toasted sourdough bread, butter and jam I ordered (their specialty). Unfortunately, the toast was cold, as was the liquidy fruit jam. Butter was ice cold out of the frig too since it has been forgotten and needed to be retrieved. The small green salad was fresh and tasty, but the two scrambled eggs were cold and rubbery. It was hard to know who was out server because aside from the seating hostess, four more people arrived, one after the other, at varying times to get the meal and forgotten items to our small party of three. I was left feeling that more training and organized timing of meals is needed at this establishment.

Positively TRANSCENDENT French toast…read more (Also enjoyed my lox bagel and vanilla latte, but that French toast!!!)

Service was easy and quick. Associate gave suggestions on what is the most popular and other items…read moreto try on my next visit. The BLT was on sourdough with light mayo, bacon cooked just right. The sandwich was large enough for me to have the other half for lunch.

Such a lovely little spot to grab coffee, a treat, and get some work done. Street parking is…read moreavailable here, but there's lot of side streets for options. The inside is really cute with the hanging flowers, and I loved the light up sign that added to the decor. I got an iced latte and a chocolate chip cookie and it was amazing- probably one of the better cookies I've had in a long time. It was warmed up, soft, and delicious. The space itself is nice a bright, very open with super friendly staff. They have local artist work on the walls for sale which is really cool. I recommend checking it out!

A large mural inside Crema Coffeehouse advertises that it's been in business since way back in, uh,…read more2023. Another coffee shop would have pretended to have been in business since the 19th century, before the latte was even invented, but not Crema. It's got *integrity*. Anyway, no one would believe that anything here is older than a year or two. It all new-looking. It has a certain sheen to it, like somewhere where you'd pay $40 for a Yankee Candle at Plaza Frontenac. As I arrived today with members of my running group, an unhoused gentleman was being, erm, questioned out front by 12. He may have spent the night in the lobby of this apartment building. It just so happened to be right as Crema was opening. Did they report him to the authorities? Should they have given him a job sweeping the sidewalk out front like the wise old neighborhood drunk in the movie Do the Right Thing, the lovable old James? Instead of bringing him downtown, the police merely confiscated his drugs and sent him on his way. (I hope he wasn't late for work.) I wonder what they do with those drugs. I've seen the movie Bad Lieutenant. I didn't know whether to be disappointed or relieved that this place doesn't carry a burrito. I love a burrito more than I love most people, but maybe this is not the place to get a burrito. But I figured I probably couldn't go wrong with a breakfast sandwich. You can't make a bad breakfast sandwich. Even a Breakfast Jack is a good breakfast sandwich. They certainly charge a premium for their breakfast sandwich. I figured this would be a situation where they charge you money out the ass for hardly any food. I was willing to take the hit anyway, for the sake of citizen food journalism, and also because I'd just run umpteen miles. Come to find out, this thing is roughly the size of a football. Its appearance is more along the lines of a torta, the hefty sandwiches from which portly Hispanic girls get their nickname. Alas, it was just okay. The croissant was ginormous but of middling quality. If it were the same size and as rich as the croissants at Comet Coffee, it would be roughly 10,000 calories, so that may have been for the best. The bacon tasted oddly similar to a Ball Park hot dog, in both a good and bad way. They give you plenty of it, but I suspect they still come out ahead. The eggs would have been fine if they'd been salted. In theory, the salt from the bacon and the cheese would have carried over to the eggs, but I don't know if I have a refined enough palate for that to be the case. I approve of a Breakfast Jack, after all. I'm willing to accept the fact that the Horchata Latte may have just been a bad order on my part. I may have needed to specify some type of syrup so that it was sweeter than it was and I didn't realize that, because what do I know about fancy coffee drinks? Or I might just not like horchata, with which I have minimal experience. They carry a gooey butter cake latte, and I should have gone with that. It was calling my name the way crack calls the guy they called the cops on. Which brings me to the Gooey Butter Cake Edges, which caught my eye in the pastry case, as if my sandwich and drink alone weren't caloric enough. I like gooey butter cake (natch), and I like the idea of "cake edges." Would this be along the lines of those brownies that are all corners? It kinda was, except that the crust wasn't quite as crisp as you'd like it to be. I don't think these were the actual edges of a gooey butter cake. They may have just been leftover cake batter baked into strips. It was still delicious, because it was gooey cake. The actual gooey butter cake may have been better. Again, I'm willing to take credit for what may have been a mistake on my part. Like the lovable old James, we all make mistakes sometimes. Crema has only been around for a few years, so I'm sure it's only a matter of time until they get their few issues ironed out. The decor is already top notch.

E61 is my go-to coffee shop! Consistently excellent brews and yummy treats…read more They've also added a selection of Greek pantry items: olive oil, chocolate treats, tea, coffee, and more! The study area (recently upgraded) is so welcoming and comfy - it almost makes me want to be a student again!

This is a really great spot to grab coffee! It's a Greek coffee shop that offers a lot of different…read moredrinks and treats- they all sounded so good I wasn't sure which one to try. I ended up getting a half sweet tiramisu latte and it was outstanding. I had never had one before (mascarpone cold foam are you kidding) and it was everything I thought it would be and more. I plan on getting lunch the next time I'm there because everything sounded great.

I hadn't been here in awhile and WOW I was missing out. It's so big and airy and I love all of the…read moreplants. The indoor space, outdoor space, and even parking lot were all great! I love that they put on events with other businesses and have created a community. Oh and the food is delicious too! They have a great kids menu and high chairs available. The bakery case is always a hit, the meals are delicious, and the coffee is pouring. I will definitely be back here again soon!

From the curb, this looks like one of those places that sells potted plants. (I think they're…read morecalled nurseries, though I'm not sure why.) They might want to consider branching out into that field, in case someone pulls up wanting to purchase a ficus or whatever, so that they don't have to turn anyone away. It could help boost revenue, so that they're not having to constantly raise prices, like at McDonald's. There's a list of things this place carries on the building's facade, suggesting to me that this is a known issue. It's also announced that all are welcome, which came as a relief to me, since I'm never quite sure. I wonder if there was an incident, or if there's another place nearby that's known to turn people away. There's a nice little area where you can sit at some picnic tables set up in the parking lot, like you're on a smoking break at your old warehouse job, but the air was weirdly swampy, possibly due to "corn sweats," and we'd just gone on a run, so we decided to eat inside. We were all gross and sweaty. I hope no one minded. Their policy of not turning anyone away may have worked out in our favor. The group that I'm in is on a sort of breakfast burrito tour, so I already knew what I was going to get, though I was curious about several menu items featuring weird-looking boiled eggs, that I saw photos of here on Yelp. What in the world? They look like they were thought up by an eccentric gentleman of a certain age who still collects VHS tapes, for personal reasons. You could imagine Gene Hackman's character in the movie The Conversation eating such a sandwich. I briefly toyed with the idea of ordering one of those sandwiches, for the lulz, and now I kinda wish that I did. I prefer a breakfast sandwich to a breakfast burrito anyway, and the breakfast burrito here is just okay. It's neither very bad nor very good. I liked the sheer size of it and the simplicity of it. There's only a small handful of ingredients: eggs; your choice of bacon or some non-meat option (so just bacon); some sort of melty cheese, possibly cheddar; roasted red peppers and that might be it. I don't know that the peppers added much. I'd sub them out for something more interesting, like a salsa, a sour cream or a guacamole, maybe something with more of a temperature or textural contrast. The egg was weirdly rectangular and artificial-seeming, like maybe they're frozen pucks that they just microwave. I got an iced Coconut Latte, a seasonal item, and I'm not sure what was going on with that. It was good, but it didn't taste anything like coconut, to the point where I'm not sure if they gave me the right drink. The girl who took my order may not have heard what I said. People who work the register in these places get nervous when a big group walks in, like they're not going to be able to take everyone's order in time and, as a result, they're going to get let go--which would violate the terms of their parole. I can sympathize with their plight. I would never intentionally cause someone to get locked up just because they gave me the wrong drink.